Wednesday, March 22, 2006

If some of you are wondering where the heck I have been for the last few weeks, look no further than this post. I have been working on my first novel called the The Lambda Initiative. I have the first draft complete and I started editing it tonight. Can I just say that editing is for the birds?I tried to get my wonderful wife to do it but she refused and it is just as well. I am making so many marks on the page that it is a sea of green ink. I know. It should be red but all I had was a green marker. Here is the front and back cover design (preliminary).If any of you are hurt that I did not tell you, please don't be. I simply did not want to jinx myself ;-).

Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Well, it's official. We have officially closed down Guinterface Software. The website now points off to my dollarprograms.com website. We are no longer selling anything Guinterface. I'm not quite sure if we'll do anything with TaskTastic. 130+ downloads from downloads.com and still no sales. I'm pretty sure it is a complete and utter loser as well ;-). That's OK. It's been fun, I've learned alot, pressed the edges of my abilities back 100s of miles so to speak.

The really nice thing about all of this is that my evening free time has expanded considerably. I actually have a life again (thank goodness). It would be nice to have the money back but that was declining anyway. Time to get used to a lower standard of living ;-).

I have to admit, it kind of makes me sad. There was a lot of work that went into the building of Guinterface Software. Hopefully, I can apply what I learned to lead some venture to success in the future.

About Me

I graduated from Wright State University in 1996. Then I took my first job at an undisclosed company. Inspired by the pain of managing blocked email I wrote Guinterface (a utility for managing email blocked by Guinevere and GWAVA). Firmly on the side of good (ha, ha) I struck out to make my way in the world. Then I realized that managing the PCs on my network was a royal pain in the butt and that seemed to call for another application ... and Tasktastic was born.
In other words the businesses and commercial successes in my life were complete accidents and other existential cruft ...